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The Maryland Journal of International Law has a long and prestigious history as a forum for scholarly discourse on a wide range of issues on international and comparative law. Established in 1976 as the International Trade Law Journal, it was known as the Maryland Journal of International Law & Trade from 1984 until 1999. Publication resumed under the current title in 2009.
The Journal presents balanced coverage on a broad range of topics related to international and comparative law and welcomes contributions from experts in the field, including scholars, judges, practitioners, journalists, and politicians. Student-written works are also accepted.
In conjunction with the University of Maryland Carey School of Law’s International and Comparative Law Program, the Journal hosts an annual Symposium during the fall semester of the academic year. Symposium proceedings and related articles are published the following spring. Recent Symposia have addressed an array of topics in international and comparative law, including international arbitration, intervention in international armed conflict, and the extraterritorial reach of U.S. laws.
MJIL Fall 2022 Symposium
Our Fall Symposium Aggressive War will be held November 3-4, 2022. The symposium will evaluate the legal and historical roots of the international norm of outlawing aggressive war and assess whether and how Russia and its leaders may be held accountable for aggression.
The event will begin with Gerber Lecturer Tom Dannenbaum, Associate Professor of International Law at Tufts University, followed by a response from Scott Shapiro, Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale Law School. There will be a series of panel discussions exploring specific subsections on this topic, including: Aggressive War – State vs. Individual Responsibility; International Institutional Responses to Aggression; The War in Ukraine and the Politics of International Law; and The Voices of the Victims of Aggressive War. The event will also feature Gerber Lecturer Keith Harper, Former Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council and Senior Fellow at Brown University.
Symposium Information
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Maryland Journal of International Law
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
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Baltimore, MD 21201
Current Issue: Volume 38, Issue 1 (2024)
Front Matter
Articles
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Interaction of Instrumentalized Law, Rhetoric, and Strategy
Christopher J. Borgen
Accountability for Aggression: Atrocity, Attributability, the Legal Order, and Sanitized Violence
Tom Dannenbaum
Political Will to Amend the International Criminal Court’s Aggression Regime After Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Yvonne Dutton
The Crime of Aggression: A Response to the Maryland Journal of International Law’s Symposium Keynote Address
Frederick Michael Lorenz
A Brief Exploration of the Need for a Special International Criminal Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression
Jennifer Trahan
Notes & Comments
Constitutional Crisis in Ukraine: The Fallout from the Constitutional Court and Attempts at Judicial Reform During War
Jackelyn Gitlin
Editorial Board, Vol. 38, 2023
- Editor-in-Chief
- Kate Leisner
- Managing Editor
- Alexis Turner-Lafving
- Executive Articles Editor
- Junior Dufort
- Executive Editor
- Victoria Roman
- Executive Notes & Comments Editor
- Sam Chase
- Senior Editors
- Cole Baker
- Hayley Cassedy
- Kat Rogers
- Priyanka Shah
- Cristol Wagner
- Staff Editors
- Aliana Carson
- Quinn Laking
- Walter Gilson
- Jackelyn Gitlin
- Jamie Hoare
- Laura Milleker
- William O'Malley
- Joshua Pike
- Julianna Smith
- Annie Tran
- Faculty Advisor
- Peter G. Danchin
- Matiangai Sirleaf